Ben Webster - Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves - 180g LP

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Ben Webster - Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves - 180g LP
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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Pure Pleasure / Black Lion BLPP  30105 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl -

AAA 100% Analogue  - Pressed at Pallas in Germany - Limited Edition

Black Lion BLP 30105 -  Audiophile Mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering London

The stereo quality of this record is excellent. The instrument separation is precise and the engineering creates a warm tone, especially on the tenor. This is a surprisingly romantic, almost sentimental collection from this weathered “hard” jazz man. AudiophileAudition - Review

Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the March 2008 Issue of Stereophile

Ben is still a whale of a tenor player, his approach for the ballads being as poignant and lyrical as ever. On such romantic tunes as 'My Romance' and 'What's New,' that breathy tone and broad-beamed phrasing are well in evidence, whilst the underlying humor and swing are more to the fore in the more muscular 'Easy to Love.'…Nothing ever drags, the pulse is always strong and the accompaniments well suited to Webster's lustrous, lusty blowing.

Anyone who thinks that a home audio system can truly re-create the sound of the live event is seriously deluded. The best we can hope for is that our systems -- and especially the software we play on them -- will allow us to pretend that what we’re hearing is an actual event and not a reproduction. "Especially" applies to the software because it is at the very top of the reproduction chain. When you’re blessed with top-flight recordings, such as this new Ben Webster LP from Pure Pleasure, it becomes possible to suspend the disbelief inherent in listening to reproduced music and simply lose yourself in the experience. By the time of this recording, Webster was a permanent European resident and at the pinnacle of his powers. It’s unfortunate that despite the superb music he recorded in Europe, little of it was pressed on decent vinyl, making most of the original copies of albums like this one (first issued on the Black Lion label) suffer from excessive noise. Not so with this reissue. Flat, dead silent, and most excellently remastered, it allows Webster and his cohorts to sound as real as your system will allow. He sticks mostly to the ballads best suited to his big-toned sax sound, though he does cut loose just enough to keep things interesting.  Detail of all kinds is presented in a manner that sounds totally natural. About the only nit I can pick is a bit of that old hard-left/hard-right early stereo sound -- well, that and the price, which is approaching $40 here in the US. You can pick up an original for significantly less, but this is a case where a reissue easily outperforms an original, allowing you to hear this music as it should have been presented all along. -Soundstage Review 

For those who relish historical story lines, the liner notes include humorous anecdotes describing encounters with legendary boxer Joe Louis and the inimitable Fats Waller. The stereo quality of this record is excellent. The instrument separation is precise and the engineering creates a warm tone, especially on the tenor. This is a surprisingly romantic, almost sentimental collection from this weathered “hard” jazz man. AudiophileAudition - Review

Musicians:
Ben Webster, tenor saxophone
Kenny Drew, piano
Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson, bass
Alex Riel, drums
Arnved Meyer, trumpet
John Darville, trombone
Ole Kongsted, tenor saxophone
Niels Jorgen Steen, piano
Henrik Hartmann, bass
Hans Nymand, drums

Selections:
1. Blue Light
2. Stardust
3. What's New
4. Autumn Leaves
5. Easy To Love
6. My Romance
7. Yesterdays
8. Days of Wine and Roses

 Ben Webster - Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves - 180g LP
 
 
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180g Vinyl Mastered From The Best Available Sources

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records. During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle. We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production. To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

There really is nothing quite like it.  It’s the touch, the feel, you have to stop and stare, the cover,  the real thing, even the smell.

Its tangible, you can feel it, see it, study it,   muse/dream over it, it’s real, someone  has spent hours and hours over its construction and presentation. Pure Pleasure Records is just that, Pure Pleasure and that is what it has set out to be.  

The music and the physical record.  Something to keep, treasure, admire and above all enjoy.Of course with vinyl it’s not just a record, it’s the cover,  the sleeve notes, you are  holding a unique package, produced by craftsmen.

Pure Pleasure  Records bring you vinyl albums of quality Jazz - Blues - R+B - Soul - Funk, remastered by some of the best engineers in the world and pressed on 180 gram audiophile vinyl at what is probably the best pressing plant in Europe 

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Audiophile Vinyl - Made in Germany  For over 60 years the family business in the third generation of the special personal service and quality "Made by Pallas" is known worldwide. Our custom PVC formulation produces consistently high pressing quality with the lowest surface noise in the industry. Our PVC complies with 2015 European environmental standards and does not contain toxic materials such as Lead, Cadmium or Toluene. Our vinyl is both audiophile and eco-grade!  

 

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